I cannot believe it has already been a year since I sat down and wrote my 2015 goals. I remember writing these goals and thinking they would be a stretch but that goals one and two shouldn’t be too terrible to achieve and that goal three would be way outside my comfort zone and possibly […]

And I biked! And I walked! And I swam (but I have been able to do that since I got the injury)! I finally feel like a whole person again. I didn’t realize how much I would hate being on a mandatory hiatus from activity (except the pool)! I have voluntarly done it in the […]

When things do not go as planned, I don’t tend to do well! And that is exactly what happened to me this weekend… On Wednesday, I started feeling some discomfort in my foot and I didn’t really think much of it. However, that quickly changed because on Thursday and Friday the pain started getting to […]

I can always find ways to surprise myself! Recently, I did so by discovering that I enjoyed training without music. Don’t get me wrong music I am not saying that I LOVE training/completing without music but I always thought I would die if I didn’t have music when I was being active. Surprisingly, that isn’t […]

When we left off last time, I had just got my bike out of the transition area… Once I got back I load my bike (I am planning on name her too, I just haven’t found a good one yet) into Ellie, I headed back to the after party. I was only gone for about […]

When we left off last time, I was surprised how good my legs felt after getting off my bike… Okay so the legs felt good when I got off the bike but then I tried to run and well, that was a whole different story! I felt so unsteady! I decided to pull back and […]

When we left off last time, I had walked over from the transition area… It started to rain as we were getting loaded in to the starting corrals, all I could think was great… I didn’t bring my headphones with because I knew I shouldn’t wear them on the bike portion on the race. It […]

Here is my recap of the Esprit de She Lakeville Duathlon. I was planning to have just one blog entry to recap it but as I wrote this I realized that one entry was going to be way to long so I have broken it up. This past Sunday I “competed” in my first duathlon! […]

Hello! My name is Missy, and I am the blogger behind Getting Fit to Find Myself. I live in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) with my fiancé, Justin, and my dog, Baylee. This blog came out of a want, I wanted a place to talk about how my fitness and weight loss journeys have helped shape who I am today. Read More…